Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ranked output IR system such as Okapi can also use several other kinds of knowledge about words to modify the way in which weights are assigned to them in an individual search . |
| 2 | Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do . |
| 3 | Anyway who has followed the actions of the opposition in Bremen or Hamburg in recent years can hardly avoid the conclusion that the Christian Democrats ( the opposition ) are not interested in gaining power ( since lucrative public positions are given to them anyway ) … |
| 4 | Directors are treated as being in a position analogous to that of trustees , so powers conferred upon them are given to them in a fiduciary capacity . |
| 5 | The polyptych of St-Germain records one group of 14 women ( ancillae ) who " if supplies of material are given to them , make shirts " . |
| 6 | The phenomena it explains are given to us in experience ; they are not produced by us , their causes are not directly knowable , and we can only hypothesize , in the terms of our theoretical framework , about what they are . |
| 7 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
| 8 | If these are given to us as actual temptations , there is no less of temptation in the resounding sentence that is the last but one of the portrait . |
| 9 | All bills for departing guests must be made up and double checked to ensure that all charges have been posted to them ( Fig. 3.8(c) , Fig. 3.30 ) . |
| 10 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 11 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 12 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 13 | I do not know whether the rules and procedures governing magistrates ' decisions on poll tax cases have been communicated to them in a proper training package . |
| 14 | I wonder if we can get to the point of my question , it may be my fault but I will try again , the reason I am suggesting to you was the decision was made to update the service charges once a year was because if you did n't update the , the existing brochure might mislead , is that right or not ? |
| 15 | French teachers , being civil servants , do not choose their schools ; they are posted to them , and may be removed from them and sent elsewhere . |
| 16 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 17 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 18 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 19 | And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do . |
| 20 | Your course will have started with an induction period when some of the demands of the course will have been explained to you . |
| 21 | Following that er the Greater York study area er was defined by the County Council erm in consultation with the Greater York authorities and er as has been explained to you , it is substantially following the boundary of the greenbelt as defined . |
| 22 | That has to have been explained to you on the phone . |
| 23 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 24 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 25 | That is not the advice that has been given to me . |
| 26 | Well I gave him all the information that had been given to me and we discussed between us various options that were open to us . |
| 27 | ‘ Peter keeps uttering things over the years saying copyright has been given to him , that there was a letter , a document , but they 've never been produced . ’ |
| 28 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 29 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
| 30 | It had been given to him , the devil claimed . ’ |